In this photo taken on a government-organized tour for the media, destroyed Syrian armored vehicles and police riots gear is seen inside a damaged Syrian police headquarters compound which was attacked by an explosion, in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, on Friday Feb. 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi
Twin blasts rock Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo
read more Gulf News
Dubai: Twin bombings struck security buildings in the Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo yesterday, killing at least 28 and injuring 175, while in besieged Homs, opposition neighbourhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar Al Assad's troops Mangled, bloodied bodies and severed limbs lay on the pavement outside the military and...

A protester throws a petrol bomb toward riot police during clashes in Athens, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.
photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris
Greece bailout: Cabinet approves draft bill for fresh cuts
read more BBC News
Greece's cabinet has approved fresh austerity measures demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout. The draft bill must now be passed by the Greek parliament and approved by European finance ministers. Five ministers have resigned from the government over the issue, with one junior party in the coalition...

A Syrian rebel runs for cover during an exchange of fire with army troops, unseen, in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
photo: AP
Avoiding the Syria trap
read more The Los Angeles Times
Given the continued carnage in Syria, and given Russian and Chinese obstruction of a plan to have Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside, the Arab League, Western nations and the United Nations secretary-general are scrambling to identify other measures to stop the killing. Those efforts are urgent and admirable. But, dire as the humanitarian...

A ball of fire explodes from one of the towers at the World Trade Center in New York after a plane crashed into it in this image made from television Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001. The aircraft was the second to fly into the tower Tuesday morning.
photo: AP / ABC via APTN
Are Drones an Adverse Reaction to 9-11 and Manned Planes?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Since the beginning of time, humankind has longed to "fly like an eagle." But Becoming "other" by divination and magic, or wresting strength from animals and other gods, has gradually been replaced by technological determinism. As the Stone Age evolved into the Bronze Age and Iron Age and Industrial...

File - Hundreds of newly trained Shabaab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18Km south of Mogadishu on Thursday Feb. 17, 2011.
photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh
Al-Shabab 'join ranks' with al-Qaeda
read more Al Jazeera
Somalia's armed Islamist movement al-Shabab have joined ranks with al-Qaeda, the latter's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a video message posted on online forums. "I will break the good news to our Islamic nation, which will... annoy the crusaders, and it is that the Shabab movement in Somalia has joined al-Qaeda," Zawahiri said in the...

A Syrian rebel peers through the scope on his weapon in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
photo: AP
Syria's Homs under relentless onslaught
read more Middle East Online
DAMASCUS - More than 80 people were killed in Syria Thursday, most of them in a relentless blitz on the city of Homs, an attack US President Barack Obama decried as "outrageous bloodshed". Shelling erupted at daybreak, killing more than 50 civilians in the besieged central city and burning several bodies beyond recognition, the Britain-based Syrian...

European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn, left, talks with Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, at the Eurogroup ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe
Eurozone Sets New Conditions for Greek Bailout
read more Novosti
Eurozone finance ministers on Thursday night agreed to attach additional conditions to Greece’s 130-billion-euro bailout deal and postponed the final decision until next Wednesday, the meeting’s chairman said on Friday. Finance ministers from the 17 euro countries met on Thursday night in...

Alvin Ward Vogtle Nuclear Power PLant
photo: Public Domain / Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. approves first new nuclear plant in a generation
read more KDVR
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years in spite of objections of the...

Two Syrian rebels evacuate an injured fellow rebel in Idlib, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
photo: AP
UN condemns 'appalling brutality' in Syria
read more Khaleej Times
AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the violence. The United Nations chief condemned the ferocity of the government assault on Homs, heart of a revolt against President Bashar Al Assad...

In this Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 photo, masked Pakistani Taliban militants take part in a training session in an area of Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan region along the Afghan border.
photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mahsud
US kills al-Qaida-linked militant in Pakistan
read more The Guardian
RASOOL DAWAR Associated Press= DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected militants, intelligence officials said. The Taliban identified one of them as a prominent commander who has served as a key link to al-Qaida. The commander, Badar Mansoor,...


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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters next to his two daughters: Rosa Virginia, left, and Maria Gabriela at a balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 4, 2011.
Mexico City: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said Friday his country would be able to send a mission to Mars after 2030. "Venezuela has stepped onto the road to space," Chavez said on national...
photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos
Libyan revolutionary fighters returning from Sirte are welcomed at Al Guwarsha gate in Benghazi, Libya, Saturday Oct. 22, 2011.
One of the sons of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to lead an uprising against the country's transitional government. Saadi Gaddafi made the comments in a television interview from Niger, where he fled...
photo: AP / Francois Mori
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.
The secretary-general of the United Nations has called on Argentina and Britain to avoid an escalation of their Falkland Islands dispute, after meeting the South American nation's foreign minister, Hector Timerman. Ban Ki-moon's office said on Friday...
photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, right, speaks at a joint news conference with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, left, at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan and the breakaway nation of South Sudan are locked in an exceedingly dangerous game of brinkmanship over billions of gallons of oil, seizing tankers, shutting down wells and imperiling the tenuous, American-backed peace...
photo: AP / Abd Raouf
Members of Syrian security are seen at the site of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. A Syrian military official says the death toll from twin suicide car bombings in Damascus is now more dozens.
Further 175 hurt in security compound blasts but opposition blames attacks on security forces aiming to disrupt protests One of two bomb blasts sites in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. Photograph: Sana/REUTERS...
photo: AP / Muzaffar Salman
Trader Lewis Vande-Pallen, right, with Seaport Securities works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Strengthening economy causes imports to outstrip exports The U.S. trade deficit hit a six-month high in December, as growth in consumer demand and business investment caused imports to rise faster than exports. The Commerce Department said the U.S....
photo: AP / Craig Ruttle
Bahraini Shiite Muslims chant slogans to free prisoners during a sermon Friday, June 10, 2011, in Diraz, Bahrain, when Sheik Issa Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric, said Bahrain should free political prisoners and that the nation's reputation is being damaged by prosecuting doctors, teachers, youths, women, clerics and other professionals arrested during the crackdown on anti-government protesters.
MANANA, Bahrain (AP) — Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain are streaming toward a site they seek to occupy for the one-year anniversary of their uprising in the Gulf kingdom. Riot police did not immediately intervene as crowds...
photo: AP / Hasan Jamali

'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 09 Feb 2012
5:48
'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'
Gulf News 11 Feb 2012, Dubai: Twin bombings struck security buildings in the Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo yesterday, killing at least 28 and injuring 175, while in besieged Homs, opposition neighbourhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar Al Assad's troops Mangled, bloodied bodies and severed limbs lay on the pavement outside the military and...

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Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece; updated 11 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece
BBC News 10 Feb 2012, Greece's cabinet has approved fresh austerity measures demanded by the eurozone and IMF in return for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout. The draft bill must now be passed by the Greek parliament and approved by European finance ministers. Five ministers have resigned from the government over the issue, with one junior party in the coalition...

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'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 09 Feb 2012
5:48
'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'
The Los Angeles Times 10 Feb 2012, Given the continued carnage in Syria, and given Russian and Chinese obstruction of a plan to have Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside, the Arab League, Western nations and the United Nations secretary-general are scrambling to identify other measures to stop the killing. Those efforts are urgent and admirable. But, dire as the humanitarian...

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US Deadly Drone Attacks-News Analysis-10-16-2011; updated 08 Feb 2012; published 17 Oct 2011
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US Deadly Drone Attacks-News Analysis-10-16-2011
WorldNews.com 10 Feb 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Since the beginning of time, humankind has longed to "fly like an eagle." But Becoming "other" by divination and magic, or wresting strength from animals and other gods, has gradually been replaced by technological determinism. As the Stone Age evolved into the Bronze Age and Iron Age and Industrial...

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Al Shabaab officially joins Al Qaeda; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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Al Shabaab officially joins Al Qaeda
Al Jazeera 10 Feb 2012, Somalia's armed Islamist movement al-Shabab have joined ranks with al-Qaeda, the latter's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a video message posted on online forums. "I will break the good news to our Islamic nation, which will... annoy the crusaders, and it is that the Shabab movement in Somalia has joined al-Qaeda," Zawahiri said in the...

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'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 09 Feb 2012
5:48
'Outside meddling fuels Syria fire'
Middle East Online 10 Feb 2012, DAMASCUS - More than 80 people were killed in Syria Thursday, most of them in a relentless blitz on the city of Homs, an attack US President Barack Obama decried as "outrageous bloodshed". Shelling erupted at daybreak, killing more than 50 civilians in the besieged central city and burning several bodies beyond recognition, the Britain-based Syrian...

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Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece; updated 11 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
6:16
Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as Germany storms Greece
Novosti 10 Feb 2012, Eurozone finance ministers on Thursday night agreed to attach additional conditions to Greece’s 130-billion-euro bailout deal and postponed the final decision until next Wednesday, the meeting’s chairman said on Friday. Finance ministers from the 17 euro countries met on Thursday night in...

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NRC Approves Nuclear Plant Despite No Safety Changes; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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NRC Approves Nuclear Plant Despite No Safety Changes
KDVR 09 Feb 2012, ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years in spite of objections of the...

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Russia, China Veto UN Resolution on Syria; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 04 Feb 2012
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Russia, China Veto UN Resolution on Syria
Khaleej Times 09 Feb 2012, AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the violence. The United Nations chief condemned the ferocity of the government assault on Homs, heart of a revolt against President Bashar Al Assad...

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US drone strike kills Ilyas Kashmiri in Pakistan; updated 09 Feb 2012; published 04 Jun 2011
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US drone strike kills Ilyas Kashmiri in Pakistan
The Guardian 09 Feb 2012, RASOOL DAWAR Associated Press= DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected militants, intelligence officials said. The Taliban identified one of them as a prominent commander who has served as a key link to al-Qaida. The commander, Badar Mansoor,...

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Mohamed Nazim gives two different accounts of president Nasheeds resgination - Maldives Coup 2012; updated 11 Feb 2012; published 11 Feb 2012
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Mohamed Nazim gives two different accounts of president Nasheeds resgination - Maldives Coup 2012
The Guardian 09 Feb 2012, KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press= MALE, Maldives (AP) — A criminal court in the Maldives has issued an arrest warrant for former President Mohamed Nasheed, who stepped down from power earlier this week but later insisted he had been ousted in a coup, a police official said Thursday. Police spokesman Abdul Mannan Yusuf refused to disclose the...

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'Drone attacks illegal, fuel terror' - Pakistani FM; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 09 Feb 2012
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'Drone attacks illegal, fuel terror' - Pakistani FM
BBC News 09 Feb 2012, One of the most senior al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan, Badar Mansoor, has been killed in a US drone strike, local officials say. The attack took place in Miranshah in North-Waziristan province, close to the border with Afghanistan. Badar Mansoor is suspected of killing dozens...

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Afghan Anger: 'UN cop-out as NATO reaches bloody high'; updated 10 Feb 2012; published 10 Feb 2012
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Afghan Anger: 'UN cop-out as NATO reaches bloody high'
Al Jazeera 09 Feb 2012, Filmmaker: John D McHugh Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan by 2014, with other NATO nations set to pull out their troops before that date and overall responsibility for security gradually being handed to the Afghan National Army and police. Following the announcement last month from...

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Villagers mourn India toxic liquor victims; updated 19 Dec 2011; published 18 Dec 2011
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Villagers mourn India toxic liquor victims
BBC News 09 Feb 2012, The number of people who have died in the Indian state of Orissa after drinking toxic illegal alcohol has risen to 31, officials say. About 70 more people are being treated in hospital and there are fears that the death toll could rise further. Residents of villages close to the city of...

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